Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-19
BILLS r;TEoDUcFD AND REFERRED.

BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. Meredith TO Incorporate
the Prince William Improvement Com
pany.
BY Mr.. Trout To amend, &c, an
act TO incorporate the Shenandoah Val
ley Railroad Company, and to issue
preferred stock and convertible bonds
under any plan of Reorganization there
Of.
BY Mr.. Jones: To amend section 3,
chapter 81, Code of Virginia, rs amend
ed by an act approved March 9, 1880,
in relation 90 turnpike companies.
BY Mr.. Dalton: To amend the char
ter and extend and define the bounda-
ries of the city Of Norfolk.
BY Mr.. Gordon : To amend section >
Of an act approved February 2G, 1886,
entitled an act providing for a new
Board of Visitors for the University OF
Virginia, approved April II, 1897, and
to amend and rcGnact sections 2, 4, and
3 of chapter so of the Code Of 1873.
BY Mr.. Gee: For the relief OF VI.
Levy & Co. and w. 7. Phillips, Of Pc
tersburg. TThe bill provides for the
refunding to these gentlemen of $3.50
enormously assessed against them and
paid for licensc-taXes.
BY Mr.. Meredith To amend section
9 of the charter of the Bristow Brown
stone Company, and to increase its
capital stock.
BY same: Petition of the Farmers
Convention held at Alexandria against
the appropriation of $500 to certain
agricultural societies.
BY Mr.. Lovenstein To incorporate
the James River Mineral-Developing
Company.
BY Mr.. Stubbs: For the relief OF
George +. Sleet, of Mathews county.
By Staples To amend, &c., see
tons ], ., 8, and 4 of an act to prevent
obstruction OF The free passage of fish
in the streams of the State, approved
April %, 1874.
By Mr.. Dalton: TO amend sections
20, Il, y, and 73 OF chapter IL of an
act providing a charter for the city OF
Norfolk.
By same To incorporate the Vir-
ginia Transatlantic Steamship Line.
BY Mr.. Trout: Making appropria
tons to the Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College. [rhe bill pro
vides for the appropriation of $4,000
TO be used in building quarters for stu
dents; $40, ,0C0 for reftting a machine
shop and purchasing machinery, and
So, coo annually for contingent ex-
penses.1
By Mr.. Lovenstein To empower the
Board of Directors of the Central
Lunatic Asylum to authorize the CON
struction and operation of railways
upon the land belonging to said insti-
tuition.
By Mr.. Berry To repeal the acts Of
March Il, 1873, and March 81, 1879,
relating to paupers in the county OF
Amherst.
BY Mr. Ellyson To incorporate the
Powhatan, Midlothian and Manchester
Railway and Mining Company.
GThe company is authorized to con-
strnct and operate railway with single
or double tracks, standard or narrow
gauge propel its carriages by steam or
such power rs it may see tit; it may io'
cate its road from either a point on
James river in Powhatsn, near Scott $
mines. or at or near Huguenot Springs,
thence to Midlothian, and thence to
Manchester or to the city OF Richmond.
The capital stock shall not be less than
$50. .OO6 nor more than s., 200, 900, IN
shares of $50. The corporators named
in the bill are Junius Baker, OF Penn
sylyanis John rutherford, q. Z.
McRae. b. b. Weisiger, II. b. Chainn,
G. s. Mills, n. w. Bowe, y. II. NASH
r. ID. Wortham, L. p. Pettigrew, John
Bladep. George II. Jewett, S. G. Wal
lace. ii. II. yaden, and John E. Taylor
of Virginia.
By Mr.. Dalton To incorporate the
Norfolk Land and improvement Com
pany. A.
rights and privileges of the Gay Mann-
featuring Company, and to grant GER
tain additional powers.
By Mr.. Ellyson To enlarge the
powers of the Richmond Union Passen-
cer-Railway Company.
By Mr.. Mccormick: To prescribe a
general law for the protection OF game
In the State OF Virginia, and TO repeal
All .xisting acts touching tho same.
BY Mr. Koiner: Making 1t the duty